Updated | 6:14 p.m. On
Monday, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in western Washington, Specialist
Jeremy N. Morlock, one of five American soldiers accused by Army
investigators of taking part in the murders of three Afghan civilians
this year, appeared at a hearing to determine the formal charges against
him.

Specialist Morlock was accused by the Army of taking part in all
three killings during his deployment in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province,
as The Lede noted in a prior post on the killings.
Other soldiers in the unit told investigators that the accused
ringleader, Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs, collected fingers and other body
parts from Afghan corpses after the killings and said that he had gotten
away with similar killings in Iraq.